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Challenge: Minimalism III (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-700D Rebel T5i
Lens: Sigma 50-500mm f/4.0-6.3 EX APO RF HSM for Canon
Location: northern california
Date: Jan 8, 2016
Aperture: 14
ISO: 1600
Shutter: 1/2000
Date Uploaded: Jan 9, 2016

 I wish I knew what kind of bird this is.
It was soaring beautifully above the waves (not shown)

Statistics
Place: 74 out of 85
Avg (all users): 4.4390
Avg (commenters): 0.0000
Avg (participants): 4.3714
Avg (non-participants): 4.4894
Views since voting: 227
Views during voting: 142
Votes: 82
Comments: 1
Favorites: 0

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 01/20/2016 07:08:14 AM
Hello from the Critique club

An appealing image that meets the challenge

It certainly fulfils the challenge brief isolated against the plain sky as it is. There appears to be a lot less detail in the bird than I would have expected, it looks as though its been cropped from a much larger image although the lens suggests that this is not the case? There is a lot of noise in the image which is, I suspect, why it has not been as well received by your voters as perhaps you would have expected. I wonder why you used such a small aperture I would have thought f8 would have sufficed which would have enabled you to shoot it at ISO 400 for a much less noisy image. Also as the bird was soaring a slower shutter speed at about 1/1000 would also have sufficed again easing the ISO/noise problem further.

I think there is a strong argument for significantly increasing the brightness of the sky to raise it to a high key alternative.

As for the bird, I'm probably wrong but it looks like a herring gull to me. Sorry you didn't receive any comments during the challenge, I hope this makes up for it. Thank you for your entry.
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